Draft-evener.



No. 705,453. Pafented July 22, I902.

M. W. SLEIGHT.

DRAFT EVENEB.

(Application flied Mar. 15, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON W. SLEIGHT, OF DEN'TON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH D.MOORE, OF MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS.

DRAFT-EVENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,458, dated July 22,1902.

Application filed March 15, 1902. Serial No. 98,315. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON W. SLEIGHT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Donton,in the county of Denton and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Eveners, ofwhichthe following is a specification.

My invention relatestofour-horse draftequalizers, and is Well adaptedfor use on plowsgang-plows', sulky-plows, and grainplows--and may beused also on wagons and other vehicles drawn byhorse-power.

The drawing'on the accompanying sheet is a plan View of my inventionattached to the subtongue of a gang-plow.

My invention is described as" follows:

Referring to the drawing, letter E represents a grooved iron pulleybolted or journaled to the under side of the subtongue D of a,gang-plow.

Letters F and F are iron rods fastened one end of each to each end of ashort chain F which works in the groove of pulley E, their other endsattached to clevises f, which are in turn secured one to the free endoflever O and the other to the free end of leverA.

0 represents a five-foot lever bolted to the subtongue D, or it may behooked to the clevis of a plow eighteen (18) inches from the righthandend of said lever and fastehed at its extreme right-hand end to end oflever B by straps and bolts h.

Letter B represents a five-foot lever attached to the right-hand end oflever O by said straps and bolts h. Said lever B is also bolted tosubtongue D, where it is again at tached to lever C by straps and boltsg and has the doubletree of the lead horses attached to the left-handend thereof.

Letter A represents a four-foot lever bolted to lever B by a bolt 2'twelve (12) inches from its left-hand end, and to the right-hand end ofthis lever A is attached a doubletree of the right-hand or off horses.

The operation of my equalizeris as follows: When the horses are pullingby the assistance of equalizing-lever O, the power is transmitted fromleverlO to lever Awitho ut any side draft on the'rightside, therebyequaliz ing the power as well as thedraft and allowing the outsideright-hand horses to walk in the plow-furrow, while the other threehorses walk upon unbroken land.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

I. In combination with the subtongueD,pu1- ley E, journaled to the lowerface of said subtongue; lever O, bolted to said tongue, near itsright-hand end; lever B, hinged to the right hand end of said lever O,and also bolted to said subtongue D; lever A, having one end bolted nearthe left-hand end of lever B; clevises f, one secured to the left-handend of leverO, and the other to the righthand end of lever A; a chain Fpassing around pulleyE; a rod F, having one end secured to the clevis f,secured to the beam 0, and the other to one end of the chain F a rod F,having one end secured to the clevis f, secured to the right-hand end oflever A,

and its other end to the chain F substantially as shown and describedand for the pur poses set forth.

2. In combin ation with the subtongue D,pul-

ley E, j ournaled to the lower face of said subtongue; lever O, boltedto said tongue, near and the other to one end of the chain F a rod F",having one end secured to the clevis f, Secured to the right-hand end oflever A, and its other to the other end of the chain F doubletrees, onesecured to the righthand end of lever A, and the other to the lefthandend of lever B, substantially as shown and described and for thepurposes set forth.

It testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MILTON W. SLEIGHT.

Witnesses:

J. D. MOORE,

' W.- O. CARPENTER.

